Hmm...Broomfield! I've been in that hospital! 

I was in the St. Andrew's block having some nifty hand surgery done on a nasty dog bite. It was actually really pretty good there.

^ Barts have a brilliant reputation, and they're a national centre for excellence in cancer. Glad to hear that your sister is OK.
Broomfield is one of the hospitals that has featured in the media due to less-than-wonderful standards of care. Really pleased you had a good experience Davina. Dog bite?! Yeesh, nasty!

regarding the misproununciation of Hangzhou, If Sherlock had only read the word, no particular reason to say it correctly, he doesn't speak mandarin, or any other dialect.
also, why he didn't name the cipher and recognize it until John pointed out it was a number system, is probably because it was in a dusty drawer in his mind palace.

They could so easily ask a scientist to help them to come up with semi-believable fudges for the short comings, and again it would take two ticks. Eg Baskerville could have a secret superfast HPLC machine using which Sherlock could discover there really is nothing but sugar and water in the solution of Henry's sugar very quickly and a million times more plausibly than 'looking down a microscope' and flashing the word hydrogen and chemical formula for water at us.

The crystaline form of sugar is reasonably distinctive under a microscope.  Had the sugar been adulterated with a drug, it would alter the crystals.  It certainly wouldn't tell him *what it was adulterated with, but it would prove him right.

(Salt is of course far more easily identified as it breaks down and recrystalizes as a cube).

I do agree that 99% of the science is pure rubbish, especially in TRF.

Be wrote:

sj4iy wrote:

I reeeeally didn't like the ending with the ridiculously huge spear shooting thing down in a tunnel just to threaten people (I laughed so hard).  Why drag it down there if a gun will work?

 
I don't know for sure, but I got the impression that it is supposed to be a parallel to the roof scene when Sherlock has to solve the problem just in time to rescue John. John is called to see Mrs. H. and drives back. 20 minutes for Sherlock to free himself from the chains. The sand pours down while John drives to the hospital. Sarah is the victim who will die when John can't tell where the jade pin is. In TBB Sherlock is the one who drives in the cab. In TRF it is John.
In TRF John will die when Sherlock can't make Jim call off the killer(s) just in time before John arrives in front of the hospital entrance.
The circus scene is done for us to get an explanation from Sherlock to apply it to TRF.

Hmm...don't know if I agree with that parallel, but it's an interesting take on it.  I just think they did it for the "countdown"...but it's done in a really unplausible way.  I'm not really sure where they even attach the sandbag, because it's a brick tunnel.  Drilling into the top of a large brick tunnel is a lot of work just to threaten people who are obviously scared by a gun pointed at them.  I don't think the writers write things as "hints" to the next season, since they are written so far apart in general.  The original stories didn't really do that, either.  They were in episodic in nature.

TRF actually follows the canon precisely as far as John leaving because of an emergency, which happens in the story.  The difference being that when Watson comes back in the story, Sherlock and Moriarty are already gone, with Sherlock having left a note.  Of course, John comes back and Sherlock "gives" him the note via phone call.  They had to change it because, thanks to the original stories, no one believes someone is dead if they have simply disappeared in fiction.  No one would believe that Sherlock was dead anyway, because he's the title character...which is why they didn't focus on that.  They focused on "how he did it" instead of "is he alive?" by showing him at the end of the episode (brilliant, imo).

besleybean wrote:

We need to remember that series 1 was written stand alone, they did not know they were going to be granted future series.
When series 2 was written, they knew they also had to write series 3.

They lie to us.
I don't believe that series 1 was written stand alone. The whole story arc is a puzzle. Look at the thread about the parallels between ASiP and TRF. They knew exactly what they were doing. They planted the clues for TRF everywhere even in ASIP.
They admitted that series two and three were commissioned together. I think they had the whole three series commissioned from the start.

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Let's wait and see.
They must have worked on it for years . They admitted it. It is a piece of art, IMO. No way that is was just one season with this cliff hanger at the pool. They didn't expect that it would be such a success.

John in TBB: It is not a circus. Look at the seize of the crowd. This is art.

And we know the titles of 2  out of series 3 already.
Plus some of the guest actors.

I guess we'll know it when they are about to film it.